Mainframe Lead

  • Chicago, IL
  • Posted 3 hours ago | Updated 2 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time
Part Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

Financial Services
Payment Systems
IT Management
Scheduling
Management
Batch Processing
Database
Backup
Recovery
Performance Tuning
Agile
Sprint
Incident Management
Change Management
Dashboard
Migration
Payments
Swift
Message Queues
API
Mainframe
CICS
COBOL
Application Development
NATURAL
ADABAS
CA-7
Job Scheduling

Job Details

Role: Mainframe Lead

Location: Chicago, IL/Onsite

Description:

The Mainframe Developer Lead with hands-on development and operations experience in design, development, and maintenance of mission-critical mainframe applications and batch processes.

Experience in financial services and payment system is plus Technical skills with deep expertise in batch JCLs, COBOL, CICS, and Software AG products (Natural, ADABAS), as well as hands-on experience with CA-7 scheduling. The Lead will drive database resiliency, enhance job observability, and optimize batch job recovery and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Lead the design, development, and support of batch and online applications.

Batch Processing & Scheduling: Develop, maintain, and optimize batch JCLs and COBOL programs.

Manage and enhance CA-7 job schedules for reliable batch processing, job observability, and automate recovery procedures.

CICS & Online Processing: Design and support CICS/COBOL programs for online transactions.

Develop and maintain applications using Natural and ADABAS including ADABAS database resiliency tasks, including backup, recovery, and performance tuning.

Resiliency & Observability: Enhance monitoring and alerts for batch and online jobs to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Agile Delivery: Work closely with product teams to refine backlogs, sprint planning, demos and prioritization.

Production incident analysis, change management process and configuring alerts/dashboards and monitoring jobs.

Analyze single partition mainframe systems to migrate Infrastructure migration to LPARS.

Understanding the payments SWIFT message formats and standardization.

File Integration, Message Queue Integration and API Integrations from Mainframe to distributed systems.

Technical Expertise

Advanced experience with batch JCLs and batch COBOL programming.

Strong knowledge of CICS and CICS/COBOL application development.

Expertise with Software AG products: Natural and ADABAS.

Hands-on experience with CA-7 job scheduling and automation.

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